Friday, April 27, 2012

A federal judge has ruled that an Ohio prison did not violate its inmates’ constitutional rights by serving halal food to all prisoners. Since everyone was being treated equally in this regard, the judge determined that the prison’s actions did not constitute a state establishment of religion.

In other news, Francois Hollande, the socialist candidate in the upcoming presidential election who is ahead of the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the latest polls, attempted to appeal to right-wing voters by promising to keep the burka ban, and also to crack down on immigration.

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